Right after college, Reagan started his early career as a sports announcer. After being turned down many times, he finally landed a job at WOC in Davenport, Iowa, as a radio sportscaster in 1932, starting with a $10 per game income (“Ronald Reagan; Life Before the Presidency” 2). Reagan had to retell the events of a game with the little information that was given to him (Degregorio 639). “He found that if he memorized the first line of a commercial, everything he said would sound ‘natural,’ a technique he used in radio for the rest of his life” (“Ronald Reagan: Life Before the Presidency” 2). This shows that Reagan was naturally gifted when it came to radio. As Degregorio says, his creativity when he presented this information is what made
